Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) emphasized the severity of former President Trump’s hush-money criminal trial, saying Americans will really pay attention to the court proceedings and that it could influence voting. He said he believed there was a sex.
Raskin’s comments came after Trump’s lawyers downplayed the trial. Attorney Will Schaaf said Sunday that this was simply a “six-week media extravaganza.”
The lawmaker called it a “very serious case” and tied it to other criminal cases President Trump faces related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
“President Trump’s people want to trivialize and downplay the significance of this trial, but the reality is, this is completely emblematic of other trials,” Raksin told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday. said in an interview with Mr.
“They’re all about election interference and manipulation. And you’ll see that in the Washington, D.C., incident,” he continued. “They tried it with fraud. You’ll see that in the Georgia case. And here they tried an attempt to dish out the books with a reward. Financial manipulation. That’s what it is. .”
“President Trump’s people will be shocked at how much attention America is paying to what’s going on here,” he added.
President Trump’s criminal hush money trial begins Monday with jury selection in Manhattan, with prosecutors alleging that the former president illegally concealed payments he made late in the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up allegations of past extramarital affairs. claims.
The trial is expected to last about six weeks and is the first of four criminal charges against the former president.
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